| Description |
viii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-364) and index. |
| Contents |
Rethinking thinking --- Schooling the imagination --- Observing --- Imaging --- Abstracting --- Recognizing patterns --- Forming patterns --- Analogizing --- Body thinking --- Empathizing --- Dimensional thinking --- Modeling --- Playing --- Transforming --- Synthesizing --- Synthesizing education. |
| Summary |
"Exercise your imagination and set off sparks of genius. In this mind-expanding book, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein describe the "thinking tools" of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Amadeus Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and show how you can practice the same imaginative skills to be your most inventive, at any time in your life. Book jacket."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Creative thinking.
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Creative ability.
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Thought and thinking.
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Creative thinking. (OCoLC)fst00882470
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| Added Author |
Root-Bernstein, Michèle.
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| ISBN |
0395907713 |
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9780395907719 |
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